Unless Peace Comes: Scientific Forecast of New Weapons

A.Lane

A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations. This book is concerned with the sociology of ‘everything that passes for knowledge in society’. It focuses particularly on that ‘common-sense knowledge’ which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of society. The authors are concerned to present an analysis of knowledge in everyday life in the context of a theory of society as a dialectical process between objective and subjective reality. Their development of a theory of institutions, legitimations and socializations has implications beyond the discipline of sociology, and their ‘humanistic’ approach has considerable relevance for other social scientists, historians, philosophers and anthropologists.

Social Construction of Reality: Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

Politics & Social Sciences

Berger, Peter L.

Luckmann, Thomas A

Social Sciences

 In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts, his reconstruction of the prehistory of mankind - to an interpretation of the basic trends of western civilization, stressing the philosophical and sociological implications.

Eros and Civilization: Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Herbert Marcuse

General System Theory

Science & Math

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Physics

The Israeli army

Luttwak, Edward

In Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American History

Biographies & Memoirs

Eugene D. Genovese

Community & Culture

New Religions

Now restored to print, here is philosopher Jacob Needleman?s groundbreaking study of America?s alternative spiritual movements, with a new introduction by the author. Originally published in 1970, The New Religions was the first full-scale study of alternative spirituality in America. It remains unparalleled for the intellectual depth and seriousness with which it regards Eastern, New Age, and alternative faiths on the American landscape.

Jacob Needleman

Religion & Spirituality

Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction

Self-Help

ERVING GOFFMAN

Relationships

Run Through: A Memoir

john-houseman

Black and White: Negro and English Society, 1555-1945

James Walvin

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